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I value not her censure any more than I should do her commendation.I am not sensible of having done anything wrong in walking over Mrs. Smith's grounds, or in seeing her house.…Cited from Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Till I die I will not yield up my integrity!My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go, My heart doth not censure any one of my days.…Cited from Sceptics of the Old Testament, by E. J. Dillon

It stands, in his mind, as a constant warning against anger or impatience or over-haste --faults to which his impetuous temperament is prone, though few have ever seen him either angry or impatient or hasty, so well does he exercise self-control.Those who have long known him well have said to me that they have never heard him censure any one; that his forbearance and kindness are wonderful.He is a sensitive man beneath his composure; he has suffered, and keenly, when he has been unjustly attacked; he feels pain of that sort for a long time, too, for even the passing of years does not entirely deaden it.…Cited from Acres of Diamonds, by Russell H. Conwell

Mr. Hopkins, of Virginia, moved to burn it in presence of the house.Mr. Wise, of the same state, asked the speaker if it was in order to move to censure any member for presenting such a petition.Mr. Gilmer, also of Virginia, moved a resolution, that Mr. Adams, for presenting such a petition, had justly incurred the censure of the house.…Cited from Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, by Josiah Quincy

What impediments do they not throw in the way of their own utility?I should be sorry if by any observations, such as the preceding, I should be thought to censure any one for the morality of his feelings.And still more sorry should I be, if I were to be thought to have any intention of derogating from the character of the Supreme Being.…Cited from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume III (of 3), by Thomas Clarkson

She was too judicious a person to hold up to censure any habitual act of her husband, whatever might have been her own opinion, or however she might have remonstrated with him in private.She had no difficulty in keeping Hiram by her side on Sunday afternoons, and the little fellow seemed instinctively to appreciate why.…Cited from The Continental Monthly, Vol. I, Jun, 1862, Number VI, by Various

After the marriage of Constance, Mrs. Jackson found herself of far less consideration in company.Few in high life are altogether heartless, and all are ready to censure any exhibition of family pride, which is carried so far as to alienate the parent from the child.This feeling the mother of Constance found to prevail wherever she went, and she never attributed the coolness of fashionable acquaintances, nor the gradual falling away of more intimate friends, to any other than the right cause.…Cited from Lights and Shadows of Real Life, T.S. Arthur

ATHENIAN: All those who are ready at a moment's notice to praise or censure any practice which is matter of discussion, seem to me to proceed in a wrong way.Cited from Laws, by Plato

"Far, madam, be it from me to censure any conduct which as yet I have observed in Miss Wharton; she has too great an interest in my heart to admit of that."Cited from The Coquette, or The History of Eliza Wharton, by Hannah Webster Foster

Whatever his sentiments and motives might have been, this was no other than a revival of the old ministerial clamour, that a man cannot be well affected to the king, if he pretends to censure any measure of the administration.Cited from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II, by Tobias Smollett

But I understood that Arthur first sought an interview with the young lady, and humbly acknowledged the wrong of which he had been guilty, saying, what was indeed true, that he had ever loved her, and he knew not what infatuation influenced him in his former conduct.Many censured Miss Merrill for her want of spirit, as they termed it, in again receiving his addresses, but I was too well pleased by his happy termination of the affair to censure any one connected with it.The wedding day was a happy one to those most deeply concerned, and such being the case, the opinion of others was of little consequence; and the clouds which had for a time darkened their sky, left no shadow upon the sunshine of their wedded life.…Cited from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories, by H. S. Caswell

But I understood that Arthur first sought an interview with the young lady, and humbly acknowledged the wrong of which he had been guilty, saying, what was indeed true, that he had ever loved her, and he knew not what infatuation influenced him in his former conduct.Many censured Miss Merril for her want of spirit, as they termed it, in again receiving his addresses, but I was too well pleased by this happy termination of the affair to censure any one connected with it.The wedding-day was a happy one to those most deeply concerned, and such being the case, the opinion of others was of little consequence; and the clouds which had for a time darkened their sky, left no shadow upon the sunshine of their wedded life.…Cited from Stories and Sketches, by Harriet S. Caswell

A smooth exterior, a show of virtue, and a specious tale, are, a thousand times, exhibited in human intercourse by craft and subtlety.Motives are endlessly varied, while actions continue the same; and an acute penetration may not find it hard to select and arrange motives, suited to exempt from censure any action that a human being can commit.Had I heard Mervyn's story from another, or read it in a book, I might, perhaps, have found it possible to suspect the truth; but, as long as the impression made by his tones, gestures, and looks, remained in my memory, this suspicion was impossible.…Cited from Arthur Mervyn, by Charles Brockden Brown

For, without intending to compliment the father or the mother, or to censure any others, I give it as my decided opinion that Mr. Adams is the most valuable public character we have abroad, and that he will prove himself to be the ablest of all our diplomatic corps.If he was now to be brought into that line, or into any other public walk, I would not, on the principles which have regulated my own conduct, disapprove the caution hinted at in the letter.…Cited from Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, by Josiah Quincy

To censure any indecent expression, by whomsoever uttered, is, doubtless, consistent with the strictest regularity; nor is it less proper to obviate any misrepresentation which inattention or mistake may produce.I am far, sir, from thinking that the gentleman's indignation was excited rather by malice than mistake; but mistakes of this kind may produce consequences which cannot be too cautiously avoided.…Cited from The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10., by Samuel Johnson

Further still, as I do not undertake the defence of Luther, so, on the other hand, I do not approve of all the dreams of the monks which have been received, not only contrary to the decision of the Scripture, but also to the authority of the ancient church.Moreover, I cannot approve of the cruelty which is everywhere being practised against those who, following the judgment of Scripture and of the fathers, reject or censure any manifest abuse or error that in the course of time may have crept into the Church.Such is my faith, O Cochlaeus, use it if you are pleased with it; if not, show me a better.…Cited from The Scottish Reformation, by Alexander F. Mitchell